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240's sheep horn bow build with Tom Lucas
NorthHeart:
On my smaller bow one of the tips was a bit off to one side. We rotated it over a hot stove for a minute or two, then with gloves on, applied pressure by hand to bend it back the appropriate direction just a bit. On this bow Tom gave me the option to add the small slivers of horn to each side, effectively allowing us to make the strings nocks a bit further out than we could other wise, for slightly longer bow. If we do in fact go this route we will sinew these little "side slivers" onto the limb. More to come...
BowEd:
Thanks for sharing your journey on these bows.
GlisGlis:
great reading and watching! thankyou :OK
NorthHeart:
We work the handles down being mindful of the splice. Grip it snugly in a vice, applying the vice clamps from the belly and back. Later, we flip it width-wise and hold it by the sides of the limb close up near the handle, so that the handle sticks out past the vice and so that you can work on it without too much moving of the rest of the limb. Furthermore, you can place a block of wood underneath the limb extending outwards so that when pressure is applied downward it helps support it.
We also glue our slivers of horn to the outer 3rd of the limb to thicken it so that the string comes to rest at an area of great thickness. The outer thirds of our horn bows will not bend.
I mark a circle around any thin areas of the limb so as not to remove any more material there as the rasp slides by.
NorthHeart:
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